Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 04, 2024

what’s one more ‘affair’ to Bordy?…

Happy fourth of July to all USA Dick Tracy fans!

Happy 4th™, all my U.S. friends!

I take it Borden doesn’t have $5 million in his back pocket. I assume that cryptocurrency is not easy to trace.

What if Bordy has come with a pistol?

Or, coming out of left field, the victim strikes a deal with Matty Squared to steal all the blackmailer’s cryptocurrency.

panel 1… the appropriate freaked-out look…

panel 2… the calm, cool, soon -to-be-collecting and assured look…

panel 3… the numbed-out look of having been cornered and resigned to the fact he’s screwed every which way but loose…

nice expressionistic work by Sir Charles…

Of course, Borden could let Gabriel print the story, & then buy up all the papers at the newsstands. It’d be less than paying $5 million in hush money. Happy Fourth, everybody, Happy Thursday to Canadian members of our community, & if anybody is reading from England, remember to vote early & often!

Thank you, beyond U.S. border well wishers ! :-)

Good morning™, Shocked and Defused !

Time for Bordy to get those “wheels” turning or be resigned to pauper status. Because when his money comes back up there will be another hit. I think what’s-her-name, back at the office, must be laughing like a hyper hyena.

Gabe’s cool demeanor is a ‘nice’ contrast to the emotions gone wild Boardin.

Panel one he is about ready to pass a brick, as we used to say!

The Duke of Wellington responded to a blackmail attempt “Publish and be d**ned!”

Best case scenario…the vic agrees and the two part ways…on his way back to the office, Captain Crumbcatcher absent mindedly meanders across the train tracks and gets smeared across the landscape by THE SWEATBOX EXPRESS

SQUUEEEEEEEZZZZZEEEE!!! Give until it hurts!

$5 million for what?

I’d let him print them . Guys I know would be buying me drinks until the cows came home .

A bullet in that greasy, fat pig’s head is far cheaper than coughing up 5 million!

“But, should you proceed, I will forebear to give you the antitoxin, my dear sir. Perhaps you should have considered the advantage I gained by arriving before your corpulent self?”

Great artwork! Happy 4th y’all! Let’s hope we actually have more of them!

1- BORDEN: MY HAND! IT’S TRYING TO GO FOR MY THROAT! DO SOMETHING!!!

2- SEVEN HERBS & SPIxES: Your cheap theatrics won’t get you out of paying me my due…

3- …Now pay up and then have the decency to go bye-bye like my last victim. Oh. And thank your secretary for her help in this matter. By the way – were you just too cheap to get a room or did you like the idea of an “audience” just outside your door?

BORDEN: Nah. I just liked the look on her face during the desk cleanup. PRICELESS! Oh wait. Not so priceless I guess…

Panels one and three…..faces of a very frightened man……….

Aha! In panel three, so this is what it looks like to break out in a cold sweat.

Happy 4th Of July Everyone

I’d just shoot his big a$$ and be done with it. ;)

Two witnesses on the other side of the door….nix on the gunplay

I do love the expressions here. Reminds me of the old EC Comics